This year, we are accepting entries on the following categories:

• Health services and sustainability, policy and workforce development
• Case reports
• Research (including clinical, digital health, translational and innovation)
• Education, training and medical professionalism
• Quality improvement and patient safety, audit

Eligibility

The main author of each submission must be a resident doctor. Co-authors must be a healthcare professional, work in healthcare or study medicine or a related field. 

For further clarification on who is considered a resident doctor, please refer to the BMA article: Doctors' titles explained.

If a submission is accepted for presentation at the conference, it must be presented by a resident doctor. This may be the primary author or a co-author designated by the submitter.

Competition stages

1. Abstract submission – open to all resident doctors
2. E-poster submission – open to authors whose work has been shortlisted in stage one
3. Presentation at the conference – open to authors whose work has been shortlisted in stage one. Presentation must be delivered by a resident doctor.

Prizes

In-person participants (who attend the conference and present their work in person) will be eligible for:

• Best overall presentation: £500 prize, an in-person ticket to Medicine 2027, and a certificate.
• Best presentations within each category (runners-up): certificate.
• All in-person winners will have their abstract forwarded to the RCP journals team who will review and consider it for full publication in one of the RCP journals.

Online participants (who attend the conference online and enter their work to be judged online, without giving a presentation) will be eligible for:  

• Best poster: £250 prize, an online ticket to Medicine 2027, and a certificate.
• Best poster (runner up): certificate. 
• All online winners will have their abstract forwarded to the RCP journals team who will review and consider it for full publication in one of the RCP journals.

Submissions

The submission period for this competition has now closed.

We have been informed that some submitters did not receive a confirmation email upon submission of their abstract. If you believe you did not receive your email, please contact us via conferences@rcp.ac.uk as soon as possible to confirm that we received your entry. Please include the abstract ID and title to help us locate your submission.

Shortlisting decisions will be announced via email after all judging has been completed. All submitters will receive an email regardless of their outcome. We expect that this will be at the end of September and kindly ask for your patience in the meantime.

Please refer to the competition guidelines below for key competition dates, and all FAQs.